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Robert Boochever, a judge who honed his legal skills in the wilds of pre-statehood Alaska before his elevation to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has died. He was 94. Boochever died of natural causes at his home in Pasadena on Sunday, the court announced Tuesday. He was one of 10 judges added to the powerful Western appeals court in the last years of President Carter's term, the last significant expansion of the court that carries the largest caseload in the federal judiciary. Some of Boochever's most notable decisions involved interpretations of the Lanham Act and its preservation of a celebrity's right to control the commercial value of his or her fame. ...

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